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Modern American Music - From Charles Ives to the Minimalist | Otto Karolyi usato Musica Musica

Modern American Music - From Charles Ives to the Minimalist | Otto Karolyi usato Musica Musica

In this, Otto Karolyi's fourth book, he explores the rich traditions of twentieth-century American music which have helped to forge the country's artistic identity and to establish a canon of important American works. He begins by tracing the history of popular folk songs, Negro spirituals, psalms and hymns which together created an independent music with a distinct character. But it was the free pioneering spirit and inventiveness of Charles Ives which mark him as the first great American composer of the century. At the same time, popular styles such as Gospel, blues, ragtime, jazz and Tin Pan Alley were exerting an enormous influence on the national consciousness. A new breed of composer who blended these disparate ideas followed, notably George Gershwin.

EUR 15.00
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Mémoire gourmande de Madame de Lévigné | AA. VV. usato Manualistica Cucina

Mémoire gourmande de Madame de Lévigné | AA. VV. usato Manualistica Cucina

Pour retrouver l'esprit du Grand Siècle, à la fois simple et somptueux, suivons la marquise de Sévigné en son château ! Etoffes raffinées, dentelles délicates et table dressée pour le dîner dans la chambre, panier rustique, confitures et pot en terre dans la cuisine où s'entassent les légumes du potager, chocolat chaud, papier à la cuve et saupoudreuse sur la table d'écriture, vaisselle précieuse et volailles à profusion pour le souper aux flambeaux... Auteurs, photographe et styliste Ont recréé dans des lieux authentiques, les décors et l'atmosphère d'une vie de château dont Mme de Sévigné a conservé le souvenir dans sa correspondance. Ses lettres constituent aussi un témoignage précieux sur l'art de la table et les habitudes culinaires d'une époque charnière dans l'histoire de la gastronomie française. Elles rapportent des menus de repas plantureux avec tourtes aux pigeons, poulardes et chapons, mais elles montrent aussi que l'on appréciait déjà une cuisine plus légère et que l'on savait se réjouir d'un dîner d'œufs frais à l'oseille. Le goût de la marquise suit l'évolution du raffinement des mœurs de son siècle qui s'oriente vers un souci moderne : le naturel et la qualité des mets. L'ouvrage propose aussi une cinquantaine de recettes oubliées, évoquées dans la correspondance de la marquise, et tirées des très savoureux et célèbres livres de Cuisine de l'époque, tels que Le Cuisinier françois.

EUR 35.00
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A History of East Asia - From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century | Charles Holcombe usato Storia Storiografia Temi

A History of East Asia - From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century | Charles Holcombe usato Storia Storiografia Temi

Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. The second edition has been imaginatively revised and expanded to place emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and connections, both within East Asia and beyond, with new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture. The second edition also features a Chinese character list, additional maps and new illustrations.

EUR 25.00
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Bruno Latour - Reassembling the Political | Graham Harman usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Bruno Latour - Reassembling the Political | Graham Harman usato Filosofia Contemporanea

Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks (2009), the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's early period and encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt and finishing with his final development into the Lippmann / Dewey debate. Harman brings these twists and turns into sharp focus in terms of Latour's personal political thinking. Along with Latour's most important articles on political themes, the book chooses three works as exemplary of the distinct periods in Latour's thinking: The Pasteurization of France, Politics of Nature, and the recently published An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence, as his conception of politics evolves from a global power struggle between individuals, to the fabrication of fragile parliamentary networks, to just one mode of existence among many others.

EUR 32.00
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Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Tel Aviv - Mythography of a City | Maoz Azaryahu usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Founded in 1909 as a "garden suburb" of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival. Over time the city has transformed into a lively metropolis, renowned for its architecture and culture, openness and vitality. A young city, Tel Aviv continues to represent a fundamental idea that transcends the physical texture of the city and the everyday experiences of its residents. Combining historical research and cultural analysis, Maoz Azaryahu explores the different myths that have been part of the vernacular and perception of the city. He relates Tel Aviv's mythology to its physicality through buildings, streets, personal experiences, and municipal policies. With critical insight, he evaluates specific myths and their propagation in the spheres of both official and popular culture. Azaryahu explores three distinct stages in the history of the mythic Tel Aviv: "The First Hebrew City" assesses Tel Aviv as Zionist vision and seed of the actual city; "Non-Stop City" depicts trendy, global post-Zionist Tel Aviv; and "The White City" describes Tel Aviv's architectural landscape, created in the 1930s and imbued with nostalgia and local prestige. Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City will appeal to urban geographers, cultural historians, scholars of myth, and students of Israeli society and culture.

EUR 15.00
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An empirically based microeconomics | Herbert A. Simon usato Politica e società Economia

An empirically based microeconomics | Herbert A. Simon usato Politica e società Economia

In his Mattioli Lectures, Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon directs attention to the kinds of empirical research that are necessary for progress in microeconomics. He traces the development of neoclassical economic theory and its gradual retreat from empiricism to abstraction. He then discusses the importance of business firms to the economic system, and the need for a thoroughly empirical understanding of how organisations work and reach their decisions. Finally, he examines innovative approaches to empirical research, including experimental economics, observational methods for studying economic behaviour, and the kinds of simulation models that are needed to interpret decision process. A round-table discussion of these issues follows; the participants, in addition to Professor Simon, are Professors Claudio Dematte, Massimo Egidi, Richard M. Goodwin, Robert Marris, Aldo Montesano and Riccardo Viale.

EUR 28.00
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The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

The Geometry of Four-Manifolds | Simon Kirwan Donaldson, S. K. Donaldson, P. B. Kronheimer usato Scienze Matematica e Ingegneria

This book provides the first lucid and accessible account to the modern study of the geometry of four-manifolds. It has become required reading for postgraduates and research workers whose research touches on this topic. Pre-requisites are a firm grounding in differential topology, andgeometry as may be gained from the first year of a graduate course. The subject matter of this book is the most significant breakthrough in mathematics of the last fifty years, and Professor Donaldson won a Fields medal for his work in the area. The authors start from the standpoint that thefundamental group and intersection form of a four-manifold provides information about its homology and characteristic classes, but little of its differential topology. It turns out that the classification up to diffeomorphism of four-manifolds is very different from the classification of unimodularforms and that the study of this question leads naturally to the new Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds. A central theme of this book is that the appropriate geometrical tools for investigating these questions come from mathematical physics: the Yang-Mills theory and anti-self dual connectionsover four-manifolds. One of the many consquences of this theory is that 'exotic' smooth manifolds exist which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to (4, and that large classes of forms cannot be realized as intersection forms whereas distinct manifolds may share the same form. These result havehad far-reaching consequences in algebraic geometry, topology, and mathematical physics, and will continue to be a mainspring of mathematical research for years to come.

EUR 95.00
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L'école des alliances - Les vins et les mets | Pierre Casamayor usato Manualistica Cucina

L'école des alliances - Les vins et les mets | Pierre Casamayor usato Manualistica Cucina

A la découverte du goût Manquerait-il une dimension à l'univers du dégustateur qui se contente d'ouvrir une bouteille, puis goûte et crache le vin, écrit son commentaire et... passe à la suivante ? L'Ecole de la dégustation se met à table pour découvrir les interactions des vins et des mets parce qu'un même vin réagit différemment au contact des textures et des saveurs offertes par les aliments. 88 occasions de repas entre amis Les 88 recettes présentées ne demandent qu'un minimum de dextérité ; elles appartiennent au registre de la cuisine classique ou régionale. Les exercices pratiques reposant sur la dégustation de plusieurs vins, chaque convive pourra apporter sa bouteille. Déguster... comparer Pierre Casamayor invite à déguster le vin en deux étapes : d'abord pour lui-même, puis sur un mets afin de détecter les variations entre les perceptions gustatives et en déduire les influences, positives ou négatives, du plat sur le vin. Le plaisir est toujours guide par l'analyse. De multiples accords gourmands Les alliances proposées page après page sont nombreuses, choisies dans les différentes régions françaises, dans la production mondiale ou dans une gamme de prix doux. Et pour que l'invitation aux saveurs soit complète, un vaste tableau livre tous les accords imaginables avec plus de 800 vins.

EUR 15.00
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Italia povera - Fatti, contraddizioni, orrori della nostra storia. Un saggio in immagini | Massimo Bucchi usato Fotografici Illustrati Fotografici

Italia povera - Fatti, contraddizioni, orrori della nostra storia. Un saggio in immagini | Massimo Bucchi usato Fotografici Illustrati Fotografici

Si spengono le luci, cala il silenzio, si apre il sipario. Entra in scena una donna: ha il passo stanco, il corpo scarnificato, lo sguardo arreso. È il nostro paese. È Italia. Non si può più raccontarla, questa Italia. Non bastano più le parole. Servono le immagini. Serve un regista. Il regista si chiama Massimo Bucchi. E dunque ecco l'Italia vera, così com'è. Massimo Bucchi la plasma, la deforma, la sfregia. L'Italia di Piazza Fontana, della stazione di Bologna e dell'Italicus ; l'Italia del valzer e del caffè; l'Italia dei coffee break di Pisciotta e Sindona, di Alfredino, dell'omicidio Lima; l'Italia del divo Giulio, del Cavaliere, di Padre Pio; l'Italia delle parate, dei governi sinistri, delle riforme del tempo perduto; l'Italia di Bartali e Togliatti, Craxi e Ratzinger. L'Italia davanti a tutto. Ma come ostaggio. Questa non è una raccolta di vignette, ma un saggio in immagini, create per questo libro e montate in un flusso inarrestabile: così Massimo Bucchi rilegge la storia d'Italia. Ne emerge un'opera illuminante che ci mostra, con lo sguardo lucido e sovversivo di uno dei più geniali vignettisti italiani, come stanno le cose. Con questo libro scopriremo l'Italia come non l'avevamo mai vista: il nostro passato e il nostro presente ci appariranno sotto una luce diversa, una luce impietosa che tutto svela; che poi diviene fioca, e che si spegne, accompagnandoci nel mondo dei sogni, sogni dolcissimi e tremendissimi.

EUR 15.00
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The Melon - 125 ritratti | Amy Goldman usato Fotografici Fotografia

The Melon - 125 ritratti | Amy Goldman usato Fotografici Fotografia

Nonostante abbia il formato e la bellezza fotografica dei cosiddetti "coffe-table book", questa etichetta sarebbe estremamente limitante perché "The Melon" è anche una vera e propria enciclopedia, ricca di informazioni e approfondimenti. Nascosti tra gli splendidi e seducenti ritratti di ciascun melone realizzati dal fotografo Victor Schrager ci sono descrizioni e storie di varietà accuratamente studiate, consigli sulla coltivazione, istruzioni per il salvataggio dei semi e l'impollinazione manuale e un elenco completo di fonti di semi. E c'è anche una spiegazione approfondita su come capire quando i meloni sono maturi, il che ci ricorda che ciò che scegli è ciò che ottieni: i meloni non maturano e diventano più dolci una volta raccolti. I capitoli coprono la storia naturale, le qualità e i dettagli botanici di ogni melone e anguria che sono oggi tra le colture orticole più importanti del mondo. Le 125 varietà illustrate e descritte nel volume, che attraggono l'occhio e stuzzicano il palato, comprendono 85 meloni e 40 angurie provenienti da tutto il mondo. Le loro storie sono diverse quanto i meloni stessi: sapevate che esiste un Khandalak dell'Asia centrale a strisce rosse, verdi e crema? O un Pocket Melon così chiamato per le sue dimensioni ridotte? O ancora che in Georgia viene coltivata una varietà di anguria chiamata il serpente a sonagli? Chissà come mai? Non resta che sfogliare e scoprirlo.

EUR 25.00
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Just kids | Patti Smith usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

Just kids | Patti Smith usato Storia Biografie Diari e Memorie

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

EUR 17.00
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Quilt Artistry. Inspired designs from the east | Yoshiko Jinzenji usato Arte Cataloghi

Quilt Artistry. Inspired designs from the east | Yoshiko Jinzenji usato Arte Cataloghi

Quilt Artistry will transform the way that readers think about quilts. Author Yoshiko Jinzenji began quilting after she came upon quilts made by Canada's Mennonite people and was deeply moved by their resonant, sacred quality. The richly minimalist quilts she makes today are as powerful as the works that originally inspired her. Quilt Artistry presents her unforgettable quilt creations in 100 color photos and in 300 black-and-white photos and diagrams. Detailed patterns and instructions are included for all projects shown. In addition to full-size quilts, Jinzenji demonstrates how to make quilted pillows, clutch purses, necklaces, decorative objects, table mats, tiny miniature quilt "mandalas," even a hammock. There are a total of 90 projects, for everyone from beginners to the most advanced quilters. Jinzenji is also a superb natural dyer and often makes quilts from fabric or fiber she colors herself, including very subtle and rich bamboo-dyed white silk. In other quilts she uses antique fabric collected from around the world, and in still others vibrant tropical natural dyes or innovative synthetics such as black metallic cloth created by well-known textile designer Jun'ichi Arai. No matter what the material, her quilts all have a remarkable quiet power. They resonate with a spiritual quality like that of classic North American quilts, but one that is rooted in an Asian, even Buddhist sensibility. Jinzenji has always wanted to "give something back" to the Western quilting tradition that first motivated her own work, and with this book she is wonderfully successful. Quiltmakers and all others with an interest in textiles or design will find Quilt Artistry as inspirational as it is practical.

EUR 45.00
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L'étiquette du vin - Illustrè par la collection de Philippe Parès | Anthony Rowley usato Arte Grafica

L'étiquette du vin - Illustrè par la collection de Philippe Parès | Anthony Rowley usato Arte Grafica

Les plus beaux spécimens d'une collection unique... On connaît les collectionneurs de timbres, leur passion discrète, fervente et méthodique. Il existe aussi des collectionneurs d'étiquettes de vin. On les appelle oenographiles, parfois oenosémiophiles ou encore éthylabellophiles. Philippe Parès appartient à leur cercle fermé. Son métier de sommelier l'a conduit à s'intéresser à l'habillage des flacons et l'a aidé à rassembler une collection sans égale de 350000 étiquettes - deux siècles d'embouteillage, les styles et les thèmes les plus variés : les châteaux, bien sûr, mais aussi l'histoire et ses héros, la politique, les sciences, les techniques et leurs conquêtes, les femmes, les artistes, le sport, la faune, la flore... Une telle collection ne pouvait qu'aiguiser la curiosité de l'historien du goût qu'est Anthony Rowley, qui a sélectionné dans ce fonds foisonnant quelque 560 spécimens, parmi les plus anciens, les plus représentatifs et les plus esthétiques. Il a privilégié le Bordelais et la Champagne, avec des incursions dans d'autres vignobles. ... et le regard d'Anthony Rowley. L'auteur des Français à table relie l'histoire de ces morceaux de papier à l'histoire de l'art, des techniques, de la typographie et à l'histoire tout court, où l'on trouve le Vatican et sa bibliothèque, Napoléon et son empire, les imprimeurs typographes du XVIIIe siècle et leurs inventions. Au fil des pages, à travers des exemples significatifs, il s'arrête sur leurs discours, explicites ou occultes, sur les noms qu'ils mettent en valeur. Il décrit leurs thèmes, motifs et symboles de prédilection. Des séries exceptionnelles d'étiquettes de grands vins apportent des précisions nouvelles sur la vie de domaines ou maisons de négoce et, au-delà, sur l'histoire du vin, de son commerce et de sa consommation. Un éclairage inédit sur la lettre et l'esprit de l'étiquette, et une introduction à la sémiologie de ce document d'une richesse insoupçonnée, reflet de la société, de ses rêves et de ses mythes.

EUR 30.00
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Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond life of the world's most seductive spice | Pat Willard usato Manualistica Piante Animali

There are few words as evocative as saffron. Over thousands of years it has perfumed the halls of Crete's palaces, made Cleopatra more alluring, and driven crusaders and German peasants to their deaths. While spices that drove adventurers to the ends of the earth, such as cinnamon, mace, and ginger, have become commonplace, saffron remains tantalizingly exotic. Nothing more than the dried stamens of the autumn-flowering purple crocus, it might as well be fairy dust. Resistant to modern horticultural technology, the fragile blossoms must still be gathered by hand from the ancient fields of Iran, Greece, Italy, southern France, and Spain. Secrets of Saffron is the story of this extravagant rover. Guided with wit and assurance by acclaimed food writer Pat Willard, we roam the rich landscapes of history and personal memory. We dine in the heavenly gardens of Persia; bathe with Alexander the Great; are served golden swans at the medieval court of France. With Willard's help, we also discover the quiet comforts of saffron, from soups that have eased illness to pies that defy death, until we arrive at last in the present day at a small garden in Brooklyn. Told in sumptuous prose, complete with fabulous ancient and modern recipes—including a Moorish wedding feast, a luscious creme brulee, and a balm for an aching heart—Secrets of Saffron will awaken in you a voracious desire for the private pleasures of this most precious spice. "I am impressed by Pat Willard's singleminded devotion to one of my favorite subjects. I have been under saffron's spell for some time and it is an integral ingredient in my cooking. I love the romance of its noble and complicated history, as well as the painstaking process of cultivation." —Todd English, author of The Olives Dessert Table "Saffron, the haughtiest, most expensive, and most mysterious of spices, has found its rightful biographer in Pat Willard, who plumbs its historical, mythological, and psychological depths with illuminating insight and a richly evocative (and surprisingly personal) prose. For saffron lovers, this book is a necessary read; for those like myself who have previously equated that spice with such culinary esoterica as gold leaf flakes or wild fennel pollen, Secrets of Saffron is a revelation—and a highly enjoyable page-turner, as well." —John Thorne, author of Outlaw Cook and Pot on the Fire "An admiring account of an exotic spice with a long and varied history, by a food writer whose imagination keeps the story light and lively... a charming little gift for an inquisitive cook."—Kirkus Reviews

EUR 13.00
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